Officer dies weeks after on-duty crash

Updated 2:16 am, Monday, December 31, 2012

A San Antonio police officer who had been hospitalized since a Dec. 10 car crash died Saturday evening.

Officer Edrees Mukhtar, 28, had been with the department for 18 months, police said.

Mukhtar was responding to a routine call just before 3 a.m. Dec. 10 when his patrol car hit a wet spot in the 3700 block of Medical Drive. He lost control, struck a curb and went into a side skid before colliding with a pickup, police say.

He was taken to University Hospital with injuries police at the time described as serious but non-life-threatening.

According to an accident report, investigators cited failure to control speed and failure to drive in a single lane as factors in the crash.